UC students protest funding cuts

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(09-22) 15:57 PDT BERKELEY -- The protest season began with a near bang at UC Berkeley this afternoon as hundreds of chanting, fist-pumping students angry about tuition hikes charged into Tolman Hall after a raucous noon rally.

They filled the ground-floor hallways and jostled police officers. One student grabbed an officer's .40-caliber magazine, sending the ammunition clip flying.

Officer Donna Chapman, who had been trying to order students to clear the building entrance, ran to pick up the clip before protesters could grab it. Around her, students shouted "No cuts, no fees, education must be free" as they flooded into the building. Classrooms on the ground floor of Tolman Hall, which houses the education and psychology schools, are empty because of seismic retrofitting work.

"We're going to try to be putting the classrooms to better use," said Callie Naidhoff, a doctoral student in anthropology.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/22/BAGI1L4JNH.DTL

[EvilMonsanto]

1. It's Just Not Fair To Students

Students are the wealth of our future

It's insanity that so many just don't get that

[customerserviceguy]

2. Depends

Students studying things that will allow them to have the jobs that will pay off their student loans, yes. Students taking up stuff that qualifies them to pay part of their student loans from their tips at Starbucks, not so much.